Dec 10, 2013

In the desert there is nothing to do but examine whether or not your esoteric production is Capitalistically exploitative.


Merlin Carpenter gives a reductionist lecture pondering whether or not his work generates surplus value in the strict Marxist sense.  The lecture is a very explicit (straightforward) marxist analysis of a few of his projects in terms of near only surplus value, treating them nearly like philosophical illustrations.








Also,
His text "the tail that wags the dog":
http://www.merlincarpenter.com/tail.htm
in which he calls out everyone around him as incestious ivory tower.

MC interview with JK and ES
http://www.merlincarpenter.com/TATECAFE.pdf
In which J.K. Kelsey proclaims at one point that he believes the revolution is coming.